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Mike Glenn

mglenn@washingtontimes.com

Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Mike Glenn

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, second from right, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a meeting with Iraq's Minister of Defense Thabit Muhammad Al-Abbas at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Austin shuffles top brass as standoff with Tuberville deepens

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is shuffling his senior military advisers at the Pentagon to fill vacant top-level positions as an ongoing feud with Sen. Tommy Tuberville over the Defense Department's abortion policy shows no signs of resolving.

August 8, 2023
ECOWAS Senegalese troops hold their position in Barra, across from the Gambian capital Banjul Jan. 22, 2017. West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS has threatened the use of force in reinstating the president of Niger after he was deposed by his military but how the bloc would carry out the threat remains unclear, with a military deployment on the table. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Pentagon suspends operations with Niger’s military after coup

The Pentagon on Tuesday suspended security cooperation with Niger's military following last week's ouster of the country's democratically elected president, a coup that has already prompted several European countries to begin evacuating their citizens.

August 1, 2023
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), center, poses for photos with the commander of the rocket force Wang Houbin, top left, and its political commissar Xu Xisheng, top right, after promoting them to the rank of general in Beijing on Monday, July 31, 2023. Banner above reads "Central Military Commission Promotion to General Ceremony" (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)

Pentagon official: China still won’t talk to us

A top Defense Department official said Beijing continues to rebuff attempts to establish communications with senior leaders in the Pentagon even as China advances its military expansion plans while the U.S. ramps up lethal assistance to Taiwan.

August 1, 2023
About 1700 drones are displayed before being sent to the frontline, to be used against Russian forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Ukraine steps up pace of counteroffensive against Russian occupiers

Intense fighting in Ukraine's western Zaporizhia Oblast this week may be a sign that Kyiv has reached a turning point in its counteroffensive against Russian occupiers. The country's military commanders appear to be pouring thousands of Western-trained and equipped troops into the battle who had been held in reserve for nearly a month.

July 27, 2023
This image from video released Wednesday, July 19, 2023, appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for the first time since he led a short-lived rebellion in June. The grainy video of him speaking to troops at a field camp purportedly in Belarus, was posted on a messaging app channel linked to Prigozhin's Wagner private military company. (AP Photo)

Russian military takes over Wagner Group’s prison recruitment program

Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin boasted that he recruited 50,000 convicts to fill the ranks of his Wagner Group mercenary army, the bulk of its troops fighting in Ukraine. They were heavily involved in the capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for Russia, one of Moscow's few recent claims of success.

July 21, 2023
Superintendent Vice Admiral Sean S. Buck addresses members of the class of 2023 during the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Friday, May 26, 2023 in Annapolis, Md. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Military academy leaders, lawmakers clash over ‘woke’ policies

When the Supreme Court ruled last month that racial preferences in admissions at U.S. colleges and universities was unconstitutional, the justices carved out a sole exception for the nation's military academies. They said institutions like West Point and Annapolis had "distinct" diversity interests owing to their unique mission of turning out the nation's top military officers.

July 19, 2023